Love at first sight
Do you believe in love? What about love at first sight? I believe! This is what happened to me. I already wrote about the choice of the hotel, and now a little about the whole trip. After settling in the room, we went to the sea. It is wonderful, warm, gentle and transparent! And even when a little "excites"! The pools are great too. One is deep and cool. It is very convenient to swim in it before breakfast. The second one is closer to the beach and the bar. It is warm, because almost until the evening in the sun. And the third, the smallest - with sea water, small slides. I describe "water" in such detail because I love to swim. The sea, of course, comes first! The whole first day I just didn’t get out of it!
The next day we had a meeting with the hotel guide. We were going to take two tours. They immediately took one - "Sightseeing tour of Antalya", and did the right thing. It was very hot! I wanted to see the relics of St. Nicholas, but my husband dissuaded me. The guide offered a free transfer to the shopping center, with a stop at the leather store, and for some reason we agreed. It’s hot during the day, there’s nothing to do, we’ll walk around the shopping center for an hour and go to the hotel! Old, but awesome! ))). She didn't have a viber. We had to call her ourselves and find out when and at what time to go. It's strange somehow. I thought she should call us! In general, we figured it out. We left for a sightseeing tour at 9.00 in a minivan. There was a wind and the cable car to Mount Tyunektepe was closed, for a start we were taken to the Antalya Aquarium. What can I say, clean, beautiful, but not enough fish. Some aquariums were clearly empty. Will probably fill it out someday! I really liked the manti and stingrays. And there was either a museum, or a room with wax figures. I didn’t go to it in Amsterdam either, but here it’s some kind of profanity. Having received a funny photo with fish and sharks for $18 (the complete set with a photo on a plate, magnets, etc. costs $29).
The wind hasn't stopped yet and we were taken to see the Old Town. Beautiful! You could go to the mosque, then look at the carpets and souvenirs. We walked quite a bit and ended up at the old port. We made a very small circle. Even Hadrian's gate was not shown! And all why? Because lunch is on the program. At a certain restaurant. And it’s nothing that it’s 12.00 at the clock, and the tourist hasn’t forgotten breakfast either, and what does Hadrian’s gate have to do with it! Such a modest, strange dinner, and - oh, joy! - we are going to the cable car! We quickly rise, 4 people in a booth, upstairs. I like it! Beautiful, but hot, like below! Slides and endless sea! We go downstairs, and we also have a presentation of fruit wines and sweets by some wife of the Sultan (later it turned out that Roksolana). Fruit wines are like homemade ones. Praised from the melon, but we did not like it. We bought blackberry and pomegranate for my mother-in-law. All those present at the tasting "grimaced and twirled their noses. " I suspect that they are the 500th time in Antalya and the 2000th time at this tasting. Well, they had to wait for us! We are in Antalya for the first time! We immediately bought tea, coffee, and, well, Roksolana's sweets, and even some kind of olive oil. I liked Roksolana's sweets! Not so deadly sweet, and my mother (on arrival) really liked the blackberry wine.
The last stop of the tour was the Duden waterfalls. It’s also beautiful, BUT why is the whole space behind the fence littered with cigarette butts? Well, that's a very ugly picture! We were again separated from the group, put into a minivan and brought to the hotel at 18.00. It cost $60 per nose. In addition to the heat under 40, I liked it. In the sunset rays they sped off to the sea and pools. We didn't want to go on excursions anymore. Come to the sea and the sand! "Water" is full, champagne too! Not Deutz, of course, but cold. It's time for a free transfer to the mall. We were taken to a leather shop. This was already the second trip. The first time we went with a representative of the store at the hotel. They bored us so much in the first half day that we decided to go in the evening to fall behind. Surprisingly successfully bought a jacket for my husband. Here the store was different, they offered some garbage with gold painting, but by chance I found a new one for myself. It took 1 hour.
We left the hotel at 14.00. They take us to the Agora shopping center and leave us until 17.00. I warn you, don't do this. The mall is half empty. Nothing to see or buy! I wanted to stare at the silver jewelry, but they stared at my exclusive labrador ring so much that we quickly left. 40 minutes drinking coffee in a cafe. At 17:00 we went to the parking lot. Of course there are no cars. We called the hotel guide. Said wait. So tired of the heat! And also boring. We took a taxi and arrived at the hotel for $7. As well-mannered people called the guide and said that we had left. Once again we left the hotel for Migros, a pharmacy and for small souvenirs. The hotel was close to the airport and there were not a lot of souvenir shops, but it was enough for us.
We chose a restaurant for a long time to celebrate our spouse's birthday, and then we bought champagne and had a night picnic by the pool with sea water. It works until 2.00. You lie in warm water, and the starry sky is above you! Everyone was satisfied! And about love. I fell in love with Antalya at first sight! Especially in her sea! I don’t know if I’ll come here again (I haven’t been to Rimini yet), but there are few places that immediately fall in love with themselves.
